No one who saw it lived to describe it!
Hammer Horror, a significant part of British cinema, emerged from Hammer Film Productions, a company established in 1934 by William Hinds and Enrique Carreras. Initially focusing on low-budget films across various genres,
Flesh crawls! Blood curdles! Phibes lives!
I watched the 1972 dark comedy MGM horror film “Dr. Phibes Rises Again” on Svengoolie. Following his murderous quest for vengeance in the previous film, “The Abominable Dr. Phibes“, Dr. Anton Phibes evades capture by placing himself in suspended animation in a sarcophagus shared with his wife’s body. He plans to return when the Moon enters into a specific alignment with the planets not seen in 2,000 years. Three years later, the conjunction occurs and Phibes rises from his sarcophagus.
I watched this re-telling of the original, 1932 horror classic, “The Mummy” on Svengoolie. This one is by Hammer Studios from Universal-International, the 1959 “The Mummy”. When searching for Princess Ananka’s tomb in 1895, the protector of the tomb, the Mummy, is released. The film is produced by Michael Carreras (The Curse of Frankenstein, The Abominable Snowman, Dracula, The Revenge of Frankenstein, The Man Who Could Cheat Death, The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll, The Brides of Dracula, The Curse of the Werewolf,
I watched this 1974 Americus Production, “The Beast Must Die” on Svengoolie. This British horror film, made at Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Middx, England, was directed by Paul Annett (English film and television director). A millionaire big game hunter invites a group of people to spend some time at his English mansion knowing that one of them is a werewolf. He plans to find out which one is the beast and hunt them down.
I watched this British 1958 Hammer horror film, Revenge of Frankenstein, on Svengoolie. The movie is directed by Terence Fisher (Horror of Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Mummy, The Brides of Dracula, The Curse of the Werewolf, The Phantom of the Opera, Dracula: Prince of Darkness, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell) and was the sequel to 1957 The Curse of Frankenstein.
I watched the 1966 British horror film “Island of Terror” on Svengoolie. Producer Richard Gordon had the idea to do the movie based on a screenplay he’d seen, “The Night the Silicates Came” and partnered with Tom Blakey (Planet Films). The movie is a about an experiment gone wrong that unleashes an evil that kills and removes all the bones from the body. It stars Peter Cushing (Hammer Horror films star, Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars and Sherlock Holmes in the 1968 BBC Sherlock Holmes TV series),
